EzzyBills

EzzyBills automates the accounts payable process by extracting data from invoices and feeding it directly into your accounting software. You can submit invoices by email forwarding, scanning, photographing on your phone, or uploading files. The system uses OCR and AI to read the document and extract header information (supplier, date, amounts, tax) plus individual line items (descriptions, quantities, unit prices, account codes). Once extracted, invoices go through configurable approval workflows before being published to your connected accounting package.

Key features include purchase order matching, duplicate invoice detection, multi-currency support, and AI-powered custom workflow rules that you can describe in plain English. It targets small to medium businesses, bookkeepers, and accountants who process significant volumes of supplier invoices and want to eliminate manual data entry. It's particularly popular in trades and construction where line-item detail matters for job costing.

EzzyBills uses an annual document quota model, which is unusual in this space. Instead of paying per user per month, you buy a plan based on how many documents you need to process per year. The Light plan starts at roughly A$80 to A$100 per year, scaling up through Small, Medium, and Large tiers to around A$2,500 for higher volumes. There are also Multi-Company plans aimed at bookkeepers managing multiple clients.

A 14-day free trial with 100 documents is available, no credit card required. Compared to per-client-per-month competitors like Dext, EzzyBills is significantly cheaper for most use cases. The pricing model works well if your volume is predictable, but could catch you out if you have a spike month and burn through your annual quota early.

Lock-in risk is low. EzzyBills functions as a processing pipeline rather than a data store. Your invoices flow through EzzyBills and land in your accounting software, which remains your system of record. If you leave EzzyBills, you lose the automation and approval workflows, but your financial data stays in Xero, MYOB, or wherever it was published. The main switching cost is reconfiguring your invoice processing workflow with a new tool and retraining any AI patterns. You can export historical data as Excel files and access everything via the API before you leave.

EzzyBills is developed by EzzyDoc Software Pty Ltd, founded in 2014 by Michael and Li Fitzmaurice in Byron Bay, Australia. The company is bootstrapped with no external funding, operating as a small team of roughly 8 to 15 people. They've been in the market for over a decade and have built a steady customer base of thousands of businesses globally, primarily in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and North America.

They were named Xero's App Partner of the Month and maintain a 4.91 star rating across 179 reviews on the Xero App Store. This isn't a venture-backed startup chasing hypergrowth. It's a small, focused company that's been quietly serving its niche for years. The lack of outside funding is both a stability signal (no investor pressure to pivot or exit) and a scale limitation (don't expect rapid feature development).

EzzyBills has an API that covers the core workflow: uploading documents, checking processing queues, and retrieving extracted data. It's functional but shows its age. Authentication uses a session-based approach that adds friction to integration work compared to what you'd expect from a modern platform.

The native integration list is solid for the Australian market, covering Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks, NetSuite, simPRO, Procore, Cin7, Airtable, ASCORA, and several others. For most SMBs, you'll use one of these built-in connectors rather than the API directly. Rate limits aren't prominently documented, which suggests they're either generous or the platform doesn't get enough API traffic for it to matter.

Overall, you can build custom integrations, but budget extra time for the setup. The API works, it just doesn't hold your hand.

Webhooks are supported for real-time processing notifications when documents finish being processed. Configuration is done per workflow in the EzzyBills settings. Documentation covers the basics.

You can export up to 300 invoices at a time as Excel files, including both summary and line-item data. Documents are stored for 7+ years in the system. Since the primary workflow pushes data into your accounting software (Xero, MYOB, etc.), your core financial data isn't trapped in EzzyBills. It's more of a processing pipeline than a data warehouse. The API also provides programmatic access to your data if you need bulk extraction.

Switching costs are mainly around reconfiguring approval workflows and retraining the AI on your specific document patterns, not data loss.

Documentation is example-driven rather than a formal API reference. You'll find sample code in several languages and Postman collections, which is helpful for getting started but less useful when you hit edge cases. There's no sandbox or dedicated testing environment. The free trial is the closest thing you get.

There are no official SDKs and no meaningful developer community. This is a niche Australian product with a small user base. The silver lining is that support is consistently praised as responsive and helpful. If you get stuck, you can actually talk to someone who knows the system. For a developer used to modern API platforms, it'll feel a bit rough around the edges, but it's workable.